Why do we veer left when walking

People across cultures & ages tend to wander counterclockwise

- RACHEL NUWER

INAKI ECHEVERRIA-HUARTE, an applied physicist at the University of Navarra in Spain, was studying whether people maintain a certain distance between one another while walking when he noticed something strange.

Across some 40 experiments, most of his participants spontaneously veered to the left. Although this observation had nothing to do with his original research, it piqued his curiosity. “This was the first signal that something weird was happening,” Dr Echeverria-Huarte said.